Monthly Archive:: October 2014
concert review
Kingston, NY’s O+ Festival shines brightly at a time when it’s getting harder to find a music festival outside the usual touring-promotion-merchandising wheelhouse. Held this past weekend and
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new music
Far removed from the irony-soaked (though extremely satisfying) stylings of his erstwhile band The Walkmen, Peter Matthew Bauer‘s debut solo effort seems to be all about the earnestness.
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new music
Simple Minds were more than a trendy new wave band. Their songs were lush and nuanced with lyrics vague enough so that they could apply to any situation, as
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video
There is a beautiful future ahead of us—one in which the infinite variability of gender, sex, and sexuality is recognized and accepted with love, love, love. You can
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video
I am grateful for guys like King Tuff who rock hard but don’t take themselves too seriously. Dude isn’t trying to change the world, he just wants you
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new music
Is there anything more satisfying than a broken heart story as told via the anguished yowl of a rock song? If you’re on the fence, Hundred Visions will
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reissue
The Domino Recording Company has released the details of the upcoming Go-Betweens box set, G Stands For Go-Betweens: Volume 1 1978-1984, and it’s a doozy, stuffed with classics, rarities,
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new music
Knee-deep in producer Francis Falceto’s stellar Ethiopiques series, I was moved to catch The Budos Band live a few years ago, when they were serving up funked-up, instrumental
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new music
The music of Xylouris White defies simple categorization. Is this world music? Indie rock? Jazz? The duo comprises heroes of two contrasting musical worlds. From the Greek island
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video
I work in an office. More specifically, I am a writer who works in an open office plan, sharing a cubicle with two other souls and a world
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